The Wonder Years (2021)
Series Details & Credits
| ABC | Release Date: September 22, 2021 |
Summary:
An adult Dean Williams (Don Cheadle) narrates the story of his coming-of-age in 1960s Alabama as a 12-year-old (Elisha "EJ" Williams) with his black middle-class family in this reboot of the 1980s family comedy of the same name.
Genre(s):
Comedy
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Positive:
18
Mixed:
3
Negative:
0
Sep 28, 2021
Sep 15, 2021
Season 1 Review:
This is an evidently big-hearted show whose pilot has great fundamentals but tries to juggle a bit more than it realistically can in less than half an hour. That’s suggestive of ambition, which makes a viewer hope this show finds its voice and its pace in the coming weeks. That desire to do and say more is so rare on TV nowadays that “The Wonder Years” feels, for reasons beyond its setting, like an ultimately welcome dispatch from the distant past.
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Sep 20, 2021
Jun 15, 2023
Season 2 Review:
We’ve gotten to know the Williams family and their circle of friends, as well as the crowd that Dean runs with in school, which is at the heart of what makes this version of The Wonder Years so enjoyable. We’re happy we can finally spend some more time with them, over a year since Season 1 ended.
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Sep 20, 2021
Sep 21, 2021
Season 1 Review:
[The original] was more sweet than outright hilarious, one of the few things the two shows have in common. The old show was escapist, sure, the new one is not, but the inevitable question is why a network remakes a show in a way that largely ignores the charms of the original. ... Whether the new “Wonder Years” is a show for our times—or any—will have everything to do with whether it continues to be so utterly predictable.
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Sep 22, 2021
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Sep 24, 2021
It does a good job combining the coming-of-age angst of the original series with the gravity of the setting it is placed in. I cannot wait to see how the series unfolds over the season.
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Air Date: June 14, 2023
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Air Date: September 22, 2021
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